INDOOR/OUTDOOR FLEA MARKET Veteran Benefit
THROUGH May 31st Randlin Stores 1ST Ave & Bridge St. & 6th St & Fulton , Wausau
M-Sat 9-6 Sun 11-4 (closed Memorial Day)Tons of furniture, clothes, collectibles, antiques, housewares, tvs, electronics, toys, shoes & more
FREE STUFF TOO!Help a homeless veteran and shop!We also have over a hundred BRAND NEW lights including indoor and outdoor lights, chandeliers and more at 75% off!
How Randlin Adult Family Care Homes Began It's Mission
Randlin Adult Family Care Homes Inc. began it's mission in December of 2000, with the hope of offering a safe place for the many chemically dependent residents (primarily homeless veterans) to recover. Local Veteran's Employment Representative Gary Albrecht, continued to see a regular flow of veterans at the Wausau Salvation Army
Homeless Shelter with no place to go, and felt there was a need for a local facility to meet their needs. Ralph Schlitz Jr. was already operating a half-way house for chemically dependent adults who had criminal backgrounds and it seemed to be a good match.
The majority had mental health issues as well, and many did not meet criteria to enter the Veterans Administration homeless programs...since residents need to be mentally and medically stable in order to be admitted to those programs in the Wisconsin facilities. Criminal records also stood in the way for some veterans
to receive treatment, still others got no help because the VA homeless programs were full. The non-veterans were also floundering without any place to go and
continued to relapse out of frustration and hopelessness.
The reality of seeing Veterans who had faithfully served our country, and other fellow residents, sleeping in dumpsters to get out of the cold, made starting a non-profit agency to help them a necessity in the minds of Randlinhomes' co-founders Ralph and Linda Schlitz.. With the help of Veteran's Representative Gary Albrecht, and
live-in staff member and volunteer Heather Parise, Randlin Adult Family Care Homes was able to begin their outreach.
Randlin Homes...giving help and hope to our veterans.
Ralph Linda Schlitz Co-Founders of Randlin Homes
It is our hope that those visiting this site today would begin to see the need to help the thousands of homeless and mentally ill veterans on our streets today, and would lend a hand to reach out and help in their healing.
Randlin Homes is a faith based 501(c)(3) non profit organization providing comprehensive services to homeless veterans, and others with substance abuse or mental illness in a home-like environment. Providing alternatives to incarceration, providing education and training, is a focus to assist in reintegration and self-sufficiency.
